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midtown Oakland, between Telegraph and Broadway, below Pill Hill
http://www.HumanistHall.org
This is the story of two Palestinian childhood friends who have been recruited for a major operation in Tel Aviv. It centers on what is presumably their final day on earth. They cannot utter a word of their plans to their families. The following day, the two are sent to the border. The bombs have been attached to their bodies in such a way as to make them completely hidden from view. However, the operation does not go according to plan. The two friends are forced to reconsider their stances after a woman comes into the picture. She provides the voice of reason about the futility of armed resistance. The two friends lose sight of each other, leaving each one up to their own fate, while struggling with their convictions. The film brings to the fore many core issues in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. It gives voice to the Palestinian condemnation of violence while offering insight into the individuals behind such violent acts. It portrays confused recruits struggling with the justification of armed resistance, and the difference between an Israeli and a Palestinian city.
Before and after the film, everyone's invited to indulge in our Humanist Tea House.
$5 donations are accepted.
Certainly one can oppose poorly-targeted violence, such as bombing a busload of poor, politically powerless, Israelis - probably mostly Arabs and Mizrahi Jews -- without opposing well-targeted violence against the Zionist establishment, such as the PFLP's assassination of an ultra-racist Israeli cabinet minister a few years ago. Anybody who condemns any violence by the oppressed should be pressed to explain what violence is supportable and what isn't. In other words, apologists for violent oppressors like the U.S. and Israel (including their collaborators in the Palestinian Authority) shouldn't be able to condemn the violence of the oppressed without being exposed and condemned for their hypocrisy.
Certainly one can oppose poorly-targeted violence, such as bombing a busload of poor, politically powerless, Israelis - probably mostly Arabs and Mizrahi Jews -- without opposing well-targeted violence against the Zionist establishment, such as the PFLP's assassination of an ultra-racist Israeli cabinet minister a few years ago. Anybody who condemns any violence by the oppressed should be pressed to explain what violence is supportable and what isn't. In other words, apologists for violent oppressors like the U.S. and Israel (including their collaborators in the Palestinian Authority) shouldn't be able to condemn the violence of the oppressed without being exposed and condemned for their hypocrisy.
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